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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1966)
— —- lu R... uide, !ntly. over For cene char- land- earn rses. /Ex. ming r+A % Che Battalion V«lwne 61 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1966 Number 350 Student Senate By BARNEY FUDGE The last Student Senate meet ing was a rather exciting one. For those who haven’t heard, President Rudder was kind enough to attend the meeting and discuss the student publications problem. It was one of the most interesting meetings that has been held in the past three years. Thebe were numerous guests present who added to the tension and excitement of the situation. The closest communication that to my knowledge has ever oc curred between the Senate and the highest official of our admin istration occurred this night. Many questions were hurled from the students to the Presi dent and there was bom a direct communication from him to the students. No matter what the results of our meeting, this close contact ean’t help but lead to a better line of communication from the administration to us. Surely, a lot of our problems could be les sened by better communication. Coming to the forefront of our student body’s present problems is an old and a hallowed tradi tion, the tradition of midnight yell practice. It has been a source of fun and the very essence of the “Spirit of Aggieland” for many years. Yet, due to a seeming disregard for common sense, we are in great danger of losing this great tra dition. Our school is large now. It is large enough so that we can no longer conduct midnight yell practice as we have in the past. There have got to be some changes made, and we, the stu dents, are the ones who have to do it. You ask yourself, “What can I do to help midnight yell prac tice?” It should be obvious. If everyone would ask themselves the same problem, and think about it, the whole problem would disappear. Think about it. See you at mid night yell practice. llfeltfll Large Turn-Out For Faculty - Staff Social it' h§M I im ■ Approximately 800 persons at- ten< ^ e< ^ annua l University fac- reception Tuesday ‘ night in the Memorial Student ^ Center ballroom. The two-hour reception, honor- |1||'$\ ing new faculty and staff mem- —11 i. ■ mlmm bers, was hosted by A&M Presi dent and Mrs. Earl Rudder. President and Mrs. Rudder were joined in the reception’s re ceiving line by the following new deans and department heads who have assumed their present posi- vS lf| : Doctor Isaac I. Peters, Dairy Science Professor, Dies In Galveston Hospital President and Mrs. staff reception. Earl Rudder (center) greet Dean and Mrs. Wayne Hall at faculty- 100 6 Old Army’ Aggies Gather For 40th Anniversary Reunion Dean Hall Cited Dean Wayne C. Hall, academic affairs vice president of Texas A&M University, has been elected to the board of directors of the Southern Association of Land Grant and State Universities. Dean Hall received the honor during the 13-state association’s anual meeting last week at Lex ington, Ky. First Bank & Trust now pays 5% per annum on savings cer tificates. —Adv. By JOHN FULLER About 100 Aggie exes from a truly “Old Army” era will gather here this weekend as the Class of 1926 holds its 40th anniver sary reunion. Mrs. Willie Mae Shepperd, class secretary for the Associa tion of Former Students, said registration for the group will begin Friday afternoon at the Ramada Inn, followed by a din ner party at Briarcrest Country Club Friday evening. A Saturday noon luncheon at the Ramada Inn, at which “sev eral special guests” will be intro duced, according to Mrs. Shep perd, will close the main sessions. Special buses will take delegates to and from Kyle Field for the TCU game as an unofficial part of the gathering. Among those expected to at tend the meeting is Class Agent Jack Williams of San Marcos, a 1926 graduate. The “Golden Anniversary” class, which graduated 50 years after the school’s founding in 1876, was distinguished among other things by championships in football and cross-country, by the writing of “The Spirit of Aggie- land,” and by the addition of sev eral new buildings to the campus. Among the leaders of the class were Williams, who served as president of the senior class, president of the “T” Association, and editor of the Battalion; Wil liam M. Pinson, who commanded the Corps of Cadets, played var sity football two years, and was junior class president; and Frank S. Kelly, a lieutenant colonel of a composite regiment, a second lieutenant in the Ross Volunteers, secretary-treasurer of the junior class and a yearbook staff mem ber. An article entitled “History and Traditions of the Cadet Corps” in the annual gives a pic ture of “Old Army” that tran scends the usual legends. “About fifteen years ago,” the report notes, “the entire corps slung equipment and started on the annual hike to the Brazos. This was a time for many to feign sickness, but the doctor was wise and no one was able to play any April Fool tricks on him. The purpose of this march was to relieve the monotony of school life and to put into practice prin ciples taught in the classroom.” The article concludes that “ev eryone had fun and was reluctant to return to the drollery of school life.” Even so, some Aggie traditions have remained remarkably intact throughout the years since the graduation of the alumni who will gather here Friday. Al though uniforms of the Cadet Corps have changed drastically, those of today’s Ross Volunteers look pretty much like those in the pictures from 40 years ago. The Elephant Walk still looks the same, and the Corps still marches down the main streets of Hous ton and Dallas. Throughout the 1926 Longhorn, a fascinating amount of similarity to the 1946 Aggieland is evident. And, from the looks of several miscellaneous and candid shots in that annual, the method of celebrating Aggie touchdowns has varied imperceptibly, if at all, since the 1926 exes first passed this way. Dr. Isaac Peters, dairy science professor at Texas A&M Univer sity since 1950, died in a Galves ton hospital Monday. The 56-year-old Russian - bom scientist had been hospitalized seven weeks. Cause of death was a heart attack. The body was given to the Uni versity of Texas Medical Center at Galveston in accordance with Dr. Peter’s wishes. Memorial services will be an nounced later. In lieu of flow ers, the family requests remem brances go to a teaching im provement fund through A&M’s Development Office. A recognized authority in cheese making. Dr. Peters came to A&M from Iowa State, where he developed a new method for making Swiss cheese. He ac quired his Ph.D. in dairy bacteri ology at the Ames University in 1947. “Dr. Peters is recognized world - wide for cheese - making technology,” declared Dr. R. E. Leighton, acting head of dairy science in the Animal Science Department. The Texas Academy of Sciences Fellow received the B.S.A. de gree at Manitoba in 1942 and the M.S. at Michigan State in 1944. He served in the Manitoba Health and Welfare Department before joining the Iowa State faculty. Dr. Peters came to A&M in 1950 as associate pro fessor and was appointed full professor in 1963. The Mennonite church member was active in Boy Scouting and past president of the College Station Kiwanis Club. Dr. Peters was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and member of the American Dairy Science Associ ation, American Society of Mi crobiology, Institute of Food Technologists, International As sociation of Milk and Food Sani tarians, Phi Kappa Phi and Sig ma Xi. He was past president of ASM and IFT Texas sections. Dr. Peters was bom July 19, 1910, in Beigthal, Russian, and was a naturalized U. S. citizen. He is survived by his wife Maurine and three children, Mar ion, Manley and Patricia who at tend A&M Consolidated schools, a brother and three sisters. Rev. Gerhard Peters is of Fordice, B.C.; Mrs. Gerhard Harder, Ot tawa, Ont.; Mrs. Elisabeth War- kentin, Steinbach, Man.; and Miss Katharaina Peters, Winnipeg, Man. tion since last fall: During the first hour — Dr. and Mrs. Horace Byers, dean, College of Geosciences; Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Martell, head, De partment of Chemistry; Dr. Mor- ros Ostrofsky, head, Department of Mathematics; Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Geyer, head, Depart ment of Oceanography; Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Greenhut, head, De partment of Economics. During the second hour—Dr. and Mrs. Clarence Zener, dean, College of Sciences; Dr. and Mrs. Jack W. Coleman, head, Depart ment of Accounting; Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Spencer, head, De partment of Geophysics; Dr. and Mrs. Lee J. Martin, head, Depart ment of English; Dr. and Mrs. J. D. McCrady, head, Depart ment of Venterinary Physiology; Dr. and Mrs. Charles Squire, head. Department of Physics. In addition to current faculty and staff members and theijj wives and husbands, invitations were extended to retired faculty faculty and staff members and their wives and husbands and to widows of faculty and staff mem bers. Humble President Visits A&M “The most valuable fuel,” states Dr. Charles F. Jones, pres ident of Humble Oil and Refin ing Co., “is the psychic fuel that fires the minds of bright, ener getic innovative people and leads them to higher levels of pro ductivity and performance.” Speaking Tuesday afternoon be fore faculty members and grad uate students of Texas A&M Uni versity’s College of Engineering, the Humble president said that like any real fuel, such as gaso line, the fuel that burns in the minds of men is not made up of any one substance but is created from a combination of things. “Like gasoline,” Jones observed, “it is composed of carefully blend- ■ ed components and additives, each put there for a specific purpose to achieve the right kind of cere bral combustion. Men whose minds are powered with this kind of fuel are truly ‘high octane’ performers who don’t ‘knock’ when the going is uphill.” Dr. Jones, who holds a physi cal chemistry doctors degree from The University of Texas, said he is concerned—but not unduly alarmed—about pockets of anti business attitudes on the college campus today. “Business, some students are saying, is for the birds,” he not ed. “With little or no experience in business themselves, they seem to regard it as a rather dull and routine way to spend their working lives. They see business as crassly materialistic, where the freedom to criticize and dissent is discouraged.” It is true, Dr. Jones said, that one of the primary purposes of business is to make a profit and felt there was no reason to apol ogize for that. “Most of the oth er criticisms made of business I reject out of hand,” he added. Turning to technical matters, Dr. Jones said the petroleum in dustry has made remarkable breakthroughs in production tech nology during the past 30 years. “Our greatest achievement in production and recovery was de velopment of understanding of behavior of oil, gas and water in the porous rock of the reser- vior,” he stated. He added that technological changes are affecting everything in the oil business, from explora tion to marketing. He said Humble, for example, is using data processing equipment to computerize statistics used in its search for oil and gas. Fire Prevention Week Exhibition Sponsored By Firemen Powers, and sixth, Barbara Ger man. Consolidated winners were: Second grade, Martha Lam bert; third, T. J. Wainerdi; fourth, Sharon Cullen, and fifth, Kerry Hyde Kuttler. William Beall, junior meteorology major, demonstrates mouth to mask resuscitation. Firement make final check after demonstrating fire-fight ing techniques. Barbara German, 6th grade student at Col lege Hill Elementary, receives a first-place award in poster contest. In a special fire-control demon stration, a small house was burned on the drill field south of Duncan Dining Hall Tuesday night. It was part of an exhibi tion sponsored by Texas A&M and College Station firemen in connection with National Fire Prevention Week. Along with the house burning, fire prevention posters made by area elementary students were exhibited. Twenty-five College Hills and A&M Consolidated stu dents were awarded prizes for their posters. Firemen demonstrated the proper use of fire extinguishers on various types of blazes and reviewed several life-saving tech niques, including mouth-to-mask resuscitation. The highlight of the evening was the burning of a small frame house for the purpose of demon strating fire-fighting techniques. The house was set afire and fire men simulated a real situation where speed and proper fire fighting methods are necessary to extinguish the blaze with least possible damage to the structure. Fire Prevention Poster winners at Collegfe Hills were: Second grade, Sandra Suther land; third, Ross Hines; fourth, Lorena Thomas; fifths'.lS«»fcstaai#‘«*hrough individual contacts. Students Plan Trip To Big D Approximately 30 Texas A&M international students will have the opportunity to visit the State Fair of Texas and John F. Ken nedy Memorial at Dallas Oct. 22-23. A&M’s People-to-People chap ter, now in its third year, has chartered a bus for the trip. The Dallas A&M Club and Dal las Council on World Affairs are assisting in the two-day trip. The A&M Club will locate stu dents in homes for the overnight stay and the Council has arranged for fair passes. The bus leaves College Station at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22. People-to-People is an organiza tion devoted to promoting better tion devoted to promoting bet ter international understanding